concentration camps

The author shares her experiences as a child when her family was relocated along with other Japanese American citizens during World War II and held for the duration of the war at the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in Colorado.

For more than twenty-five years the March of the Living in Poland has brought together survivors and students from all over the world to ensure that firsthand accounts of the Holocaust are not lost. As they walk through concentration camps, ghettos, and towns depleted of Jewish communities, a special bond forms as the original witnesses to the Holocaust pass their mantle to a new generation whose task it is to remember what they hear and see. Although Jews were the largest group slated for extermination, the Nazis also killed those who differed with Nazi beliefs: trade unionists, Communists, homosexuals, Roma (gypsies), Russian POW's, and the disabled. But the Jewish people alone were ultimately subjected to the goal of total annihilation.

Barbara Cherish's upbringing under the Nazi regime was one of wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi party meant that she and her siblings lived under stress. The year she was born, 1943, her father, Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel, became commandant of Auschwitz. In researching her father's story, she found that he kept his relationship with his family and the demands of his job separate. He was found guilty of war crimes at the end of the war and executed in January 1948. At the age of six, she and her siblings were placed into foster care and she was adopted when she was thirteen She arrived in America in December 1956. Forty years later she publicly acknowledged who her birth father was and began her search for her identity.

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A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp.

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Combination of personal narratives and official documents describing deportation, incarceration, death, and survival in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

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